Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2020
While the Coronavirus outbreak is threatening the world, the INTERPOL warns that crooks are increasingly targeting hospitals with ransomware. The INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organisation) is warning of ransomware attacks against hospitals despite the currently ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. Attackers are targeting organizations in the healthcare industry via malspam campaigns using malicious attachments. The attachments used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2020
Experts uncovered a hacking campaign that is breaching Docker clusters to deploy a new crypto-mining malware tracked as Kinsing. Cloud security firm Aqua Security uncovered a hacking campaign carried out during the past months, hackers are scanning the Internet for Docker servers running API ports exposed without a password. Then the attackers break into the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2020
A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Coronavirus-themed attacks March 22 – March 28, 2020 FIN7 hackers target enterprises with weaponized USB drives via USPS Source code of Dharma ransomware now surfacing on public hacking forums Crooks leverage Zooms popularity in Coronavirus outbreak to serve […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2020
Microsoft declared that an Emotet attack took down an organization’s network by overheating all the computers and bringing its Internet access down. Microsoft shared details of the Emotet attack suffered by an organization named Fabrikam in the Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART) Case Report 002, where Fabrikam is a fake name the IT giant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2020
A recently discovered strain of malware exploits the current COVID19 pandemic to render computers unusable by overwriting the MBR. SonicWall’s security researchers have discovered a new piece of malware that exploits the current COVID19 outbreak to render computers unusable by overwriting the master boot record (MBR). Unfortunately, this is one of the numerous attacks conducted by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2020
Crooks target Android users working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak with a Trojanized version of the popular video messaging app Zoom. Security experts from Bitdefender have spotted tainted versions of the Android Zoom video-conferencing application that is targeting users working from home due to the Coronavirus outbreak. Researchers detected re-packaged Zoom mobile applications […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2020
Researchers spotted a campaign using Excel files to spread LimeRAT malware using the 8-year-old and well-known VelvetSweatshop bug. Researchers at the Mimecast Threat Center spotted a new campaign using Excel files to spread LimeRAT malware using the 8-year-old VelvetSweatshop bug. LimeRAT is a powerful Remote Administration Tool publicly available as an open-source project on Github, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2020
Holy Water – An APT group compromised a server hosting Web pages belonging mainly to religious figures and charities to carry out watering hole attacks. On December 4, 2019, Kaspersky experts discovered a watering hole attack, tracked Holy Water, aimed at an Asian religious and ethnic group. The campaign has been active since at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
The source code of the infamous Dharma ransomware is now available for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The source code of one of the most profitable ransomware families, the Dharma ransomware, is up for sale on two Russian-language hacking forums. The Dharma ransomware first appeared on the threat landscape in February 2016, at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2020
In this post, I decided to share the details of the Coronavirus-themed attacks launched from March 22 to March 28, 2020. Threat actors exploit the interest in the COVID19 outbreak while infections increase worldwide, experts are observing new campaigns on a daily bases. Below a list of attacks detected this week. March 23 – COVID19-themed […]
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